Name: Pete Rose Talks About Betting On Baseball | David Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Pete Rose Talks About Betting On Baseball | David Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-01. Transcript available.

thanks for being on the program you look tremendous you're keeping yourself in
pretty
good shape huh doing all right what's this most of oh i'm just making a joke uh
let's talk about
the big red machine man there was that was a tremendous baseball operation wasn't
it i think
the better i like to sit here and tell you the big red machine was the greatest
team ever but
uh i think what we were dave is the most entertaining team ever most
entertaining
in what sense did you find it well we had speed we had defense we had daring
base runners we had
white stars we had black stars we had spanish stars we had a flamboyant manager
yeah uh sparky
anderson was tremendous wasn't he he was the best absolutely and then he had of
course johnny bench
uh joe joe morgan tony perez davy concepcion uh tommy helms on and on and on
and on bobby
toldin ken griffey oh that's right ken griffey jorge foster who we sent to the
mets yeah what
what a tremendous i gotta wait who's got worse hair me you or donald trump
no i'm right i would say i gotta be probably at least donald trump's got a lot
of it i don't have
much of it i think i would sure i mean it's all forward yeah i don't know uh i
think you're looking
pretty good i don't know what to do with mine anymore i i give up uh do you
still watch uh baseball
you like it yeah i watch about three games a day three games in california yeah
you know of course
the east game started four and the midwest at five and the west coast games at
seven so it still
excites you as a fan right yeah yeah i watch the reds every day and i watch the
dodgers at night
i know pretty much about baseball what do you want to know well first of all
let's take a look at the
playoffs they're beginning this week who do you like you sound like you're
betting on baseball yeah
you know baseball is going to hate me the two teams i like is san diego and minnesota
uh-huh and i i like i like the yankees until they lost randy johnson i like the
mets who've had a
fantastic year until they lost martinez right uh st louis is going into the
playoffs playing as bad as you
could play uh detroit i don't think they have the experience so you know i don't
think baseball wants
to see those two teams in the finals they like to see la and of course the yankees
sure now uh you
mentioned a reference me betting on baseball do you still the wager on baseball
games
honestly i can't because i know too damn much about it you know too much fair
yeah it wouldn't be fair
no but you you uh
now
how come we can't see the audience is there anybody out there i can't see they're
out there they're out there
uh but you you did wager on baseball when you were a manager did you ever wager
when you were a player
no never never as a player just and and do you gamble at all anymore uh i i
work 15 days a month
in vegas at the form shops right at the field and dream store i have a place
about 10 miles 10 miles from
downtown and no i'm not a casino type gambler yeah yeah anything like horses or
uh well when when the
horse track runs on friday night at hollywood park which is about four times a
year because
i work every day from 12 to 6 and it's unbelievable it's just i sit there and
take pictures of grandmas
and little babies and if you want to take a picture you want to get an
autograph and there's no city like
vegas i know new york's a great city but there's no last year 43 million people
visited las vegas
wow and i just want 40 million of them to buy autographs yeah
what was the deal when you were uh you were autographing baseballs that said i'm
sorry i bet
on baseball pete rose what was the story behind that
well it's a pretty true statement though if you want to know the truth
uh about 15 months ago i signed some balls for a friend of mine in cooperstown
who was going to sit
on them for like 10 or 12 years and then he give them uh to he split them with
his partner and his
partner give 30 to a guy who give him the barry hopper you've heard a
tremendous sports memorabilia
25 million dollars worth and all of a sudden a week and a half ago or so the 30
balls end up
on an auction and i'm saying wait a minute you know no one's got to pay for
these balls why should
these guys make three or five thousand dollars a ball so we decided to put the
balls uh if that's
what the fans want on peterose.com or sell them at all the field of dream
stores when you i signed
one the other day i'm sorry i shot jfk well now pete now that's um wait this is
kind of unusual
i really didn't i mean it's a joke yeah i was in fort knox that day i wasn't in
dallas
regardless of what you read um i was here about a what a week and a half ago uh
i actually come in
to go to long island to watch my son play baseball he was playing against the
ducks that's the long
island ducks he played for bridgeport and i get up on money and i pick i'll go
down for breakfast and
i see the front page of the paper you got it no we don't have it we had it we
had it a minute ago my
whole my whole face is on the front page i thought i died no no and everybody
every president of every
important country in the world is five blocks down the street from you at the
un and i'm on the cover
of this paper because i signed a baseball 14 months ago i don't get it do you
there it is right there
right here for look at that that why didn't they put the president of iran on
there the president
president of iraq or pakistan well pete you raise a fascinating point
now
when you were baseball baseball is a grueling game and it seems like every year
the games get longer
like an average game now seems to be between three and a half four hours easy
you play 162 of them a
year you get your playoffs you get your spring training when you when you were
playing did you
other players use any performance enhancing drugs no we we got high on just
playing the game of
baseball you know let me let me explain something why i think the games are so
long today
because every half inning has like 90 to a minute and 20 worth of commercial
right right and
obviously the the game is going to be longer in the american league because you
got an extra hitter
and if you have an extra hitter which is a dh you're going to score more runs
okay who's your
mvp in the national league you're asking me yes no
yes sir i don't know you don't know no well it's got to be ryan howard doesn't
it yeah 59 yeah
and i'm sure there's some albert puo's fans out there he's had a wonderful year
sure
we'll give him the the spanish mvp now listen pete let's get back to the uh how
about the
america league mvp i want to interview you no i don't i don't see i don't know
much about baseball
at all anymore there was a time when i knew everything and now i just i just
don't what
happened well i i found that the games sometimes get a little dull four and a
half hours you're watching
the wrong team now um when when i was younger and the the word was that the
players used greenies
what were greenies do you remember those were those around greenies were uh
nothing more than diet pills
and they were they were stimulant to to help get you i don't think i don't
think greenies would ever
help you do anything um you know i took greenies before in spring training only
because i tried to
lose some weight see nowadays guys go to spring training 100 ready to go and i
would recommend
that to any young players trying to make the team but but back when i played
you might be five to eight
pounds overweight and you want to go to spring training you work up such an
appetite that you
just take a something to curve your appetites what it is it's not going to help
you play any better so
so it never helped you kind of ward off fatigue a late season double no it's
not like steroids if
i took steroids i got 5 000 damn hits yeah oh golly and and is that the kind of
thing you might have
done if they were available would you might have considered taking oh i don't
know i don't i don't
want to put anything in my body it's going to ruin my uh liver or something
like that not not for the
sake of making some money yeah but if somebody came to you and said you know if
we're careful with this
and we manage it thoughtfully it can help you prolong your career it can help
you recover from injuries
and it might also improve your performance with no health risk would you
probably would have done
that right honestly that's a horse question
that's why i'm here
i don't have it i don't have an answer for that because that never happens so i
can't really answer
that question and your relationship with baseball now is there's no chance you'll
get to the hall of
fame still some chance don't ever say no in america i mean i had a very
successful
well not successful but an entertaining breakfast when i was in town and we can
have a go with the
president of baseball who's a wonderful guy bob dupay and uh we talked about
baseball and just be two
fans talking over breakfast so it still might happen come in with this america
man you got to get a
second chance of it and but but currently your relationship with the major
league baseball is you
are welcome you are not welcome i'm not i'm not allowed to do anything really
yeah except watch games
yeah but you know believe it or not dave i think i'm the best ambassador of
baseball has because like i
said 15 days i mean like like right here i'm night for the playoffs i'm here
talking positive about
the game of baseball i see thousands of fans every week and i'll never badmouth
the game of baseball
because i'm concerned with the game of baseball it's uh it was very very good
to me and i want it to be
good for my son and his son and and uh you know baseball players have to
understand that the fans
are the most important thing it's just like viewers right okay all you want is
viewers right and all
baseball players you want you know drives me crazy when you turn a game on and
say jesus a great night
to paint the seats that's right i mean the seats are for one reason okay for
asses and with that ladies
gentlemen all my best pete thank you very much good to see you again pete rose
we'll be right back with roy wood jr